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...training camp at Grossinger's resort, the slab-chested challenger, Jerry Quarry, 24, growled: "I'll come out burn-in'." At the nearby Concord Hotel, the undefeated champion, Joe Frazier, 25, growled: "I'll come out smokin'." Fight fans have learned to expect that the loud er the talk the duller the fight - but not this time. At Madison Square Garden last week, both fighters were burnin' and smokin' in one of the hottest heavyweight bouts in recent years...
...JAMES C. FRAZIER JR. Ponca City, Okla...
...First adopted in the U.S. by the city of Los Angeles in 1903, the recall has been used to topple two mayors there and to unseat city officers elsewhere. Only North Dakota has ever ousted a Governor-Lynn Joseph Frazier, in 1921, because of a bank scandal. The same electorate sent him to the U.S. Senate the very next year...
...also about money. Frazier, a onetime slaughterhouse laborer who once earned $125 a week, picked up $120,000 in a mere six minutes last week, when he defended his five-state (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine) version of the heavyweight title against Mexico's Manuel Ramos, 24, at Madison Square Garden. A 4-to-l underdog in the betting, the Mexican shocked everybody-especially Frazier-by unloading a first-round right that buckled Joe's knees and sent him reeling backward into the ropes. Frazier shook his head to clear the cobwebs ("It's the hardest...
...fists, Joe decked the Mexican twice, closed his right eye, and raised egg-size lumps on his forehead. Barely saved by the bell at the end of the second round, Ramos wearily waved his arm in a gesture of surrender, and the referee stopped the fight. For undefeated Joe Frazier, it was Victory No. 21 and Knockout...